OPEN SOURCE PHARMA​

Medicine for All

The pharmaceutical industry has failed to deliver in countries both rich and poor - for neglected diseases, for antibiotics, and for affordable cures generally. New drug prices can exceed $80,000 annually and productivity in the pharmaceutical industry has been declining exponentially. At the same time, while diseases of the global poor make up 90% of present health problems, only 10% of global health spending on R&D and resources is devoted to them. The needs of billions are left unmet by an industry ripe for upending.

​A radical, alternative, end-to-end, open source pharmaceutical system dedicated to breakthroughs in affordable medicine is possible. It would leverage exponential advances in computing power and collaborative technologies, alternative approaches to intellectual property, and the vast reach of the generics industry. We hope to create an alternative, open source pharmaceutical system driven by openness, patient needs, and affordability.

OSP3 - PARIS 20193rd GLOBAL OPEN SOURCE PHARMA CONFERENCE

Our third Global Open Source Pharma Conference will be held from March 21-23, 2019at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) in Paris! This meeting follows two global open source pharma conferences that took place in 2014 in Bellagio, Italy and in 2015 in Marburg, Germany.

Our Goal

We seek to create affordable new medicines in areas of public health need. We do so by using open source methodologies of computation, collaboration, crowdsourcing, transparency, and open intellectual property.